“Stranger Things”
June 21, 2023
Netflix’s supernatural thriller “Stranger Things” remained No. 1 on Parrot Analytics’ digital originals U.S. rankings the week ended June 16. It had a 13.8% drop in demand expressions, the proprietary metric Parrot uses to gauge a show’s popularity, giving it 47.6 times the demand of an average series. “Stranger Things” was No. 7 on Parrot’s list of overall TV shows.
No. 2 on the digital originals chart was again the Apple TV+ comedy “Ted Lasso,” which had a 22.6% dip in demand expressions, giving it 42.2 times average demand. The show presented the finale of its third and supposedly final season May 31.
The Disney+ “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian” remained No. 3 on the digital originals chart. It had an 8.4% drop in demand expressions, giving it 37.6 times the demand of an average series.
Up two spots to No. 4 was Netflix’s “The Witcher,” which The superhero show, which had its series finale May 11, had a 6% rise in demand expressions to give it 37.2 times average demand.
Back into the top 10, up 12 spots from the previous week to No. 6, was the Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which had its second season premiere episode become available June 15. It was up 53.1% in demand expressions to give it 33.4 times average demand.
A “digital original” is Parrot’s term for a multi-episode series in which the most recent season was first made available on a streaming platform such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu or Disney+.
The No. 1 overall TV series in terms of online demand was “The Flash” with 78 times average demand, no doubt getting a boost from the new movie The Flash.
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Media Play News has teamed with Parrot Analytics to provide readers with a weekly top 10 of the most popular digital original TV series in the United States, based on the firm’s proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures demand for TV content in a given market through a wide variety of data sources, including video streaming, social media activity, photo sharing, blogging, commenting on fan and critic rating platforms, and downloading and streaming via peer-to-peer protocols and file sharing sites. Results are expressed as a comparison with the average demand for a TV show of any kind in the market.
